I don't think it was exactly a fourth wall break, Thor didn't know that you were at the respawn page. But Kratos was dead/defeated and Thor knew that.
I had died before in the fight so I was genuinely ready to press the button to respawn at checkpoint. To me at least it didn't read as unserious and it did not distract from the scene
Now if Thor said that the combat tips wouldn't be enough to beat him! That would be pretty weird!
What is disappointing is the son shouting out every single combat tips. I'm pretty sure Kratos knows he should use the fire blades on the ice dudes!
I think that hit me as a joke more because Thor and Odin were already speaking and behaving like modern-day mobsters without the fantasy overtones that Freya and Baldur used when talking.
Especially because using Mjolnir as a defibrillator was genuinely funny but also implies that these Norse gods have defibrillators.
Someone suggested to me that Kratos would be forcibly healed just like how he taught Atreus to do in the previous scene and I think that would have worked better
You make a good point that the characters don't break the fourth wall, that helps
I don't think it was exactly a fourth wall break, Thor didn't know that you were at the respawn page. But Kratos was dead/defeated and Thor knew that.
I had died before in the fight so I was genuinely ready to press the button to respawn at checkpoint. To me at least it didn't read as unserious and it did not distract from the scene
Now if Thor said that the combat tips wouldn't be enough to beat him! That would be pretty weird!
What is disappointing is the son shouting out every single combat tips. I'm pretty sure Kratos knows he should use the fire blades on the ice dudes!
I think that hit me as a joke more because Thor and Odin were already speaking and behaving like modern-day mobsters without the fantasy overtones that Freya and Baldur used when talking.
Especially because using Mjolnir as a defibrillator was genuinely funny but also implies that these Norse gods have defibrillators.
Someone suggested to me that Kratos would be forcibly healed just like how he taught Atreus to do in the previous scene and I think that would have worked better
You make a good point that the characters don't break the fourth wall, that helps